Comparing 8-, 9- and 10-inch girl dolls

I’ve photographed all of my 8-, 9- and 10-inch girl dolls, not just Skipper & friends, but other companies’ dolls as well.  The variations in construction and sizing are endless.  They cannot wear each others’ clothes and shoes.

1960s

Dodi, 1965, Ideal straight leg, 9 inches tall, bust 4 1/4 inches, hips 4 1/4 inches

Skipper, Pepper, Skooter, Josie and Dodi

Josie West, 1967, Marx Moveable Cowgirl, 9 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 4 1/4 inches

Pepper, 1964, Ideal straight leg, 9 1/2 inches tall, bust 5 inches, hips 5 inches

Skipper Roberts, 1964, Mattel straight leg, 9 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 3 3/4 inches

Skooter, 1966, Mattel bend leg, 9 1/4 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches

1970s

Top row: Skipper, Mattel Kristy, Mego Kristy, Jody and Stephie
Bottom row: Love, Farrah, Angie and Dodi

Angie Dickinson, 1977, Horsman Pepper Anderson, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 3 3/4 inches

Dodi, 1977, Ideal Suntan, 9 inches tall, bust 4 1/2 inches, hips 4 inches

Farrah Fawcett, 1978, Hasbro Jill Munroe, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches

Jody, 1975, Ideal Old-Fashioned Girl, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches

Kristy McNichol, 1979, Mattel Buddy Lawrence, (SuperTeen Skipper body), 9 1/4 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches

Kristy McNichol, 1978, Mego Buddy Lawrence, 9 3/4 inches tall with heels, bust 5 inches, hips 4 1/4 inches

Love, 1971, Hasbro World of Love, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches

Skipper Roberts, 1975, Mattel Growing Up, shorter version 9 1/4 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches; taller version 9 3/4 inches tall, bust 4 1/4 inches, hips 4 inches

Stephie Sunshine, 1978, Mattel And Now There are Four, 9 inches tall, bust 3 1/2 inches, hips 3 3/4 inches

Lisa, Catherine and Skipper

1980s

Catherine Bach, 1981, Mego/Warner Bros. Daisy Duke, 7 3/4 inches tall, bust 3 3/4 inches, hips 3 1/4 inches

Lisa, sometime in the 1980s, Takara Pretty, 8 1/2 inches tall, bust 4 inches, hips 3 1/2 inches

Skipper Roberts, 1989, Teen Fun Party Teen, 10 inches tall, bust 4 1/4 inches, hips 4 1/2 inches

1990s

Licca, Ariel and Snow White

Ariel, 1991, Tyco Friends, 9 inches tall, bust 4 3/4 inches, hips 4 1/4 inches

Licca, 1991, Takara, 9 inches tall with heels, bust 4 inches, hips 4 inches

Snow White, 1990, Lucky Bell/First National Film Corp., 9 inches tall, bust 4 1/2 inches, hips 4 inches

Some notes:

1. Josie West and the blonde Skooter dolls could have been twins.
2. The 1970s Dodi is thinner and shapelier than the 1960s version.
3. Angie/Pepper is the thinnest and most flexible of the dolls.
4. The shorter version of the Growing Up Skipper body was remade as the SuperTeen Skipper body.  (Growing Up and SuperTeen size dolls can wear each others’ outfits.)
5. The Mattel Buddy Lawrence doll’s body and hair look more like the real-life Kristy McNichol, but the face of the Mego Buddy is far more realistic.  I am assuming the Mego doll body was adapted from another doll’s, as it is far too busty for Kristy.
6. The Charlie’s Angels dolls’ bodies were made from the Love doll bodies, with only a slight difference in the angle of the waist.  That same body was used the 1980s by Germany’s Plasty for its Peggy dolls.  (I used to have a 1980s Peggy and some outfits but have long since resold them.)
7. The Snow White doll is not based on the Disney movie.  She is from a 1990 animated film called Happily Ever After, by the First National Film Corp.  Although Snow White and Ariel were made by different companies, their bodies are clearly the same mold.  Either Lucky Bell stole--ahem, borrowed--the Tyco mold or Lucky Bell was a subsidiary/sister company of Tyco.
8. Lisa is the Americanized version of the Japanese Licca.

Some day I will write a similar article about the 9-inch boy dolls.

If you have any other Skipper-sized dolls that you would like to write about yourself, please tell me.  I know there are many others (not including clones) but these are the ones I own.